Non-Fiction
Iskren Krasimirov
To Discover Sofroniy. Sinner, Saint, or Action Hero
“To Discover Sofroniy”, authored by Iskren Krasimirov, is dedicated to one of the greatest Bulgarian national heroes. Based on scientific research, skillfully accompanied by his own comments, the book presents life and work of Sofroniy V
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Frank Wollman
Bulgarian Dramaturgy
"Bulgarian Dramaturgy" is the first history of our drama, which is only now becoming available to our reading public in translation into Bulgarian. The text comprehensively covers the main periods of the development of stage discourse in our count
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Roland Barthes
Writing Degree Zero. Mythologies
Mythologies is the title of a collection of essays examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths. Barthes also looks at the semiology of the process of myth creation, updating Ferdinand de Saussure's system of
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Georgy Borisov
My Stories (1973 – 2023). Volume 1
In this impressive literary work in terms of volume and time span, which the author has called “My Stories”, and some would define it as a kind of “writer’s diary”, Georgi Borisov presents his unpublished poems, th
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Georgy Borisov
My Stories (1973 – 2023). Volume 2
There are few servants of the Word in our country today who are able to resist vanity and not deviate from the path on which their talent has led them. And on this path, if you remain true to your nature and indifferent to the tempta
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Milena Kirova
Bulgarian Literature in the 21st Century (2000 - 2022). Vol. 2
After five years of work and hundreds of books read, I can say for sure only one thing: during the last quarter of a century, Bulgarian literature has become more diverse than ever before. To what extent this is the result of its internal developmen
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Marin Georgiev
The Conspiracy of the Dead
"The Conspiracy of the Dead" by Marin Georgiev is a story about the "intermediate Bulgarian time". For a time that supposedly no longer exists, but which must be witnessed if we want to understand what and how it was. The stories and testimonies
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Alexander Kiossev
Job and Jobbery
The book covers short journalistic texts written on various occasions in the period 2000-2024. The style is sometimes serious and sad, other times - cheerful, playfully intellectual. Some of the texts are longer and reflective, others are shorter
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Juan José Millás
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look.
Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesn’t quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or s
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Anna Zarkova
The Death of the White Fox
On October 2, 1996, Andrey Lukanov was shot in front of his home - a prominent politician of the Bulgarian transition to democracy, prime minister in two governments, deputy. By whom and why? To this day, none of the versions have
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Rumyana L. Stancheva
Comparative Theories of Literature. The Femme Fatale and Five European Patterns of Novel
This edition introduces the reader to European comparative literature. In the five chapters of the book, we read about mytho-criticism, literary history, the theory of narration in the text of the novel, the commonality between literature and m
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Ivan Shishiev
Sketches of Sofia: 24 hours
“Sketches of Sofia” is a photography project by Ivan Shishiev, which since its inception in 2015 has undergone great development and accumulated thousands of fans/followers. Initially started as a Facebook page, “Sketches of Sof
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Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism — an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history.
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 180
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Elena Ferrante
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2022 (Air Mail)
Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist
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Milena Kirova
Bulgarian Literature in the 21st Century (2000 – 2022), Vol. I
One of the first things I realized was the need to look critically at the critical practice of recent decades. I say this as the author of more than seven hundred reviews of newly published books, written in the period 1995-2020 and publishe
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Iskren Krasimirov
To Betray Levski
Who is Vasil Levski's traitor? This question, which aroused long-standing polemics, continues to worry our historical memory even today.
In this book the author's investigations into the truth about both the physical and the ideological trai
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Edi Rama
Kurban
Disappointed by his loss at the local elections in 2011, Edi Rama decided to analyze what was achieved in Tirana in the context of the situation in the country and present his vision for the future of the capital and of Albania. Thus
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Nikolay Tsenkov
The Triumph of the Masses
The book summarizes the main anthropological and axiological concepts of the masses. At the same time, the modern social incarnations of the mass person (economic agent, figure of power and deformer of the informational and cultural enviro
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Angel Wagenstein
A Dream of St. Boris I (Illustrated Edition)
Angel Wagenstein: Bulgarian screenwriter, director, writer, democrat, anti-fascist, intellectual and active public figure. A creator full of incredible energy, Wagenstein has created the scripts for 52 feature films, documentaries and animations pro
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Henry James
The Art of Criticism
Born in New York in 1843, but having spent most of his life overseas, and above all in England, where he died in 1916, Henry James left a huge creative legacy - twenty-one novels (including such masterpieces as "The Portrait of a Lady"
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Iskren Krasimirov
To Kill Botev. Mysteries, Memories, Lies
Who, how and under what circumstances had killed the voivode Hristo Botev? For a century and a half, this painful question for our historical memory has not found its clear and definite answer.
The available evidence is collected, arranged and inte
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Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust on Art and Literature
Essays foreshadowing the great themes of Remembrance of Things Past
Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Sainte-Beuve", this surprising and stimulating critical collection includes Proust on the contemporary writing of his era, on painting
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E. Pancheva, A. Licheva, M. Yanakieva
Theory of Literature. The New Century
Surrounded by discussions of metamodernism, cosmodernism, transhumanism and other "isms", we realize how imperceptibly literary studies have conquered territories that give them the right to be called current and modern science. And in
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Half a Century of Bulgaria 1878-1928. Illustrated anniversary album. Phototype edition
"And precisely in these conditions, when everyone seeks salvation for himself and as he sees it possible, a woman, already in adulthood, performs a work with the spirit of Vazov's presence, evoking the memory of the great patriotic gestures
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Mark Nelissen
Darwin at the Supermarket
What is the function of pain? Is everybody homosexual? Do we discriminate against our children? Why are young prostitutes more successful than older ones? Why do appreciative audiences all over the world clap their hands? And were we once
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Eliot Weinberger
An Elemental Thing
With An Elemental Thing, Eliot Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us
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Umberto Eco
To Say Almost the Same Thing. Experiments on Translation
The brilliant Italian philosopher, semiotician and cultural critic Umberto Eco reflects on the compromise nature of translation
After giving a series of lectures on translation, Umberto Eco further developed his notes in a monograph respectable
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Milena Kirova
Bulgarian Literature from Liberation to the First World War, vol. 3
"Bulgarian Literature from the Liberation to the First World War" is a book that grew out of the lectures of Prof. Milena Kirova at Sofia University. Its content follows the program of students in Bulgarian philology and is tailored to their ne
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Giuseppe Menarini
Bulgaria and the Future of the Slavs
Intrigued by the ideas of Panslavism, Giuseppe Menarini wrote a richly supported factual commentary on the turbulent and romantic historical situation in the Balkans in the years around the Unification, in which Bulgaria was the main actor. The the
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Noël Carroll
Humour: A Very Short Introduction
Humour has been discovered in every known human culture and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. Humour can serve many functions; it can be used to relieve stress, to promote goodwill among strangers, to dissipate tens
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Maria Popova
Figuring
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the
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Giuseppe Modrich
In Bulgaria after the Unification
The book dedicated to Bulgaria is from the early ones in this series (1889) and contains touches from the creative portrait of its author, but also authentic evidence of the political and social situation in the country, as well as
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The Transition. Bulgaria 30 Years Later
This book is a brief account of what has been achieved and not achieved in various areas of public life in Bulgaria over the last thirty years, defined by some as a completed, by others as an incomplete, or even as a permanent trans
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Ivan Ilchev
The Rose of the Balkans. Bulgaria until the End of the XIX Century, Vol. 1
A Concise Bulgarian History for Curious Readers
For decades, I have read with curiosity numerous studies of our history before making the decision to write this book. And why did I get involved with it? There are so many books on Bulgarian histo
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Ivan Ilchev
The Rose of the Balkans. Bulgaria in the Twentieth Century, Vol. 2
A Concise Bulgarian History for Curious Readers
For decades, I have read with curiosity numerous studies of our history before making the decision to write this book. And why did I get involved with this? There are so many books on Bulgarian his
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Ronald de Sousa
Love: a Very Short Introduction, First Edition
Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and eve
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Terry Eagleton
The Meaning of Life
The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction titled The Meaning of Life, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serio
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Amelia Licheva
Is the Nobel Prize a World Award?
What is behind the concept of "world literature"? Is there a second plan and backstage in the literary processes of our globalized modernity? Is the road from the sensation to the canon obvious? These questions emerge from the book "Is the Nobel Pri
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José Ortega y Gasset
Europe and the Nation Idea
"One of the immanent characteristics of European culture is that it is periodically experiencing crises. This, however, means that, unlike other great historical cultures, it is not closed, it is not forever crystallized culture. There
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Collective
The changing nature of work. World Development Report 2019
The World Development Report (WDR) 2019: The Changing Nature of Work studies how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Fears that robots will take away jobs from people have dominated the disc
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Marc Lilla
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and jurists who, whether they lived in democratic, communist, or fascist societies, supported and defended totalitarian principles and horrific regimes. But
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Mariela Gemisheva
Time and Style. An Outline of the History of Fashion in the 20th Century
"With its classic status in the context of modernity, fashion is not just a social system with established rules. Rather, it tends to modify its own rules because of its RIGHT OF NEGLIGENCE OR "BETRAYAL". We follow fashion, as its v
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Tony Judt
Thinking the twentieth century
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought.” (Los Angeles Times)
One of our most brilliant historians, Tony Judt brings th
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Anders Aslund
Europe's Growth Challenge
Europe is in a serious crisis but that it can face up to these challenges. In Europe's Growth Challenge Anders Aslund and Simeon Djankov argue that the European Union can only be successful if it carries out substantial changes in the Europea
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Jean Pierre Vernant
The Universe, the Gods, and Men. Ancient Greek Myths
In this enchanting retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his deep knowledge of the subject with an original storytelling style.
Beginning with the creation of Earth out of Chaos, Vernant continues with the castration of
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Michael Wolff
Fire and Fury
With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Since
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Cédric Villani
Moon Dreamers
Four geniuses that changed the history:
Werner Heisenberg, the unsure of himself.
Alan Turing, the unrestrained.
Leo Szilard, the traveling prophet.
Hugh Dowding, the heavenly knight.
Physicists, a mathematician and a military m
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Milena Kirova
Bulgarian Literature from Liberation to the World War I, vol. 2
"Bulgarian Literature from the Liberation to the World War I" is a book that grew out of lectures of prof. Milena Kirova at Sofia University. Its content is based on the program of Bulgarian Philology students and is tailored to their needs and
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